Innovation to Cisco's Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) Offers Service Providers Future Horizontal Scalability

BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Feb 28, 2017) - MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS - With more than 10 billion devices and connections projected by 2020, according to Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) Mobile Visual Networking Index Forecast (2016-2021), service providers will need the scalability and performance to manage the high growth of devices in their networks.

Cisco announces today, Layered Services Architecture (LSA), an innovation to the Cisco® Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) enabled by Tail-f, will pave the way for service providers to support the next order of magnitude of devices in their networks. The more than 100 existing and new customers that have adopted NSO's technology will benefit from the future horizontal scalability and performance enhancements to the industry's most advanced and flexible service orchestration platform.

As service providers look towards demands of cloud-scale networking, their legacy management tools and process are stretched to a breaking point of scalability and complexity. Cisco NSO with LSA gives service providers the capability to manage over one million devices in their networks.

Service providers, cloud providers, and enterprises are increasingly adopting Cisco's NFV solution, NSO, for its unique capabilities to:

• Work in multi-vendor environments with the industry's broadest set of proven orchestration interoperability capabilities, spanning over 50 network equipment vendors and up to 100 device models today.
• Offer a model driven approach -- NSO allows customers to create and change services using standardized service models without the need for time-consuming custom coding or service disruption.
• Automate more than 50 to 70 percent of customers' operations workflow.
• Offer full life cycle management for designing, updating, and deleting network services faster and easily.

"Since its inception, NSO has helped our customers meet their customers' changing demands, while driving revenue growth and reducing operational concerns when deploying and managing new services," said Charles Stucki, vice president and general manager of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Business Unit, Cisco. "With our new innovative NSO feature, LSA, we want to continue to meet the needs of our customers by solving scalability concerns in the network as devices and connections increase over the next few years."